4th January 1957 - NEW HALL TRAGEDY 
The 400-year-old New Hall in Ferrybridge Road, Pontefract, may be demolished on the grounds that it is structurally dangerous... more

11th January 1957 - PONTEFRACT GLOBETROTTER 
"Blossom" Womack is a Pontefract name known over half the world... more

1st February 1957 - GARMENTS FOR REFUGEES 
Over 100 garments for Hungarian refugees, given by local residents, left Pontefract for Wakefield by lorry on Tuesday... more

March 1957 - FIRM PROVIDES RECREATION ROOM 
A view over Pontefract from the six-foot high windows in a lounge which looks like a space travel terminal... more

5th April 1957 - NEXT MAYOR OF PONTEFRACT 
Councillor George Evan Poppleton, a member of the Labour Party, has accepted an invitation to become the next Mayor of Pontefract... more

18th April 1957 - ARCHAEOLOGICAL ACTIVITY 
Exciting discoveries 25 years ago on the site of the Priory of St. John, in the Robson playing field at Monkhill, Pontefract, are recalled... more

26th April 1957 - PROFITABLE RESULTS 
Another week of excavation at the Priory of St. John at Pontefract has had profitable results... more

10th May 1957 - MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION 
Three weeks of excavations, which ended on the site of the Priory of St. John, Monkhill, Pontefract, on Saturday, yielded much valuable information... more

21st June 1957 - SCOUTS IN DOUBLE CELEBRATION 
Nearly 500 Boy Scouts, Cubs and leaders in the Pontefract and District Boy Scouts Local Association, are this week celebrating... more

21st June 1957 - DIVERSION ON HOT AFTERNOON 
Feet began tapping in the shopping centre of Pontefract on Tuesday, when shop assistants, office workers and shoppers were stirred... more

2nd August 1957 - SCOUT JAMBOREE 
When you read this, H.R.H. Duke of Gloucester will, before 35,000 Scouts, have declared open the 1957 Jamboree... more